Sentences with phrase «self acceptance re»

And obfuscated his betrayal of the public trust with a sympathy story about his lack of self acceptance re being gay.

Not exact matches

Self - acceptance also means accepting your income and success level as they are, she says.

If you wish to seek a cure, the most straightforward answer I have is to achieve self - acceptance.

It's only upon acceptance of his true self that he dons the red - and - blue caped suit and becomes the superhero he was meant to be.

«The results showed it was the people who wrote self - compassionately who felt more self - forgiveness, personal improvement and self - acceptance,» reports PsyBlog.

As research shows, interpersonal warmth explains the self - fulfilling prophecy of anticipated acceptance; study participants who expected to be accepted were perceived as more likable.

It could be more about self - acceptance but instead it's about old fictional stories.

Mike D — Atheism is growing because there is an acceptance of people who are self absorbed and selfish.

So, I would argue with both of you that most (not all) of the men who are «just in it for the sex» are as gay as those in long - term relationships... they're just in a different state of self - acceptance.

this web site does nt really put christians in a good light as far as acceptance of the 2nd largest religion... islam... and that category is shared with catholics, restorationists, gnostics and episcopalians... so do nt flatter your self too much.

Faith, they argue, means being brought to self - examination in the present and accepting God's acceptance.

What are the criteria of self - worth and social acceptance among American men?

He is trained for a confrontation with others in which his own self - identity, self - respect and public acceptance are at stake.

What Europe needs is a new self - acceptance, a self - acceptance that is critical and humble, if it truly wishes to survive.

Was Jesus death a denial of self or an acceptance of self?

As Alt increases his self - acceptance, it diminishes his need for defensive grandiosity, which, like medieval armor, was a terrible weight as well as a protection.

That is the opposite of self acceptance.

It's all about self - acceptance and in order to do that there must be a willingness to be honest and open.

Only by rejecting Christ from his heart is Rodrigues able to be a true priest for the Japanese Christians, enabling their union with God by his own acceptance of humiliation and self - emptying.

However, in fairness to Scott's presentation, Camus does come «close» to «accepting acceptance» at Tipasa, where the overwhelming beauty of the setting lures Camus into an experience where he feels his self is given to him by the natural beauty.

They somewhere got the idea that «self acceptance» is the Christian gospel.

Self - acceptance is vital to your well - being.

Both in the secular world and in the church, our characteristic approach to human frailty is not chastisement and dire threats, but understanding; not calling people to repent their sins, but teaching people the gentle arts of self - acceptance; not an ethic of cross-bearing, but an ethic based on the value of self - actualization.

But the message of divine acceptance is sometimes presented as an ultimately sentimental underwriting of every sort of self - indulgence, disregard of the claims of others, cruelty and self - deception, as if everything, but everything, was for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

In between the self - righteous avoidance of the evil of others and the acceptance and willing of evil lies the difficult path of taking evil upon oneself without being corrupted by it and transforming it into love.

The Jewish legal system, now left behind, had once been the means by obedience to which he had sought «justification»; now faith — the whole - hearted self - committal of a man to Jesus Christ by which the entire personality is transformed — is the sole ground of any one's acceptance with God.

When Ezra cries, «Thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve,» (Daniel 9:16) or a prayer in the Book of Nehemiah says, «Thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast dealt truly, but we have done wickedly,» (Nehemiah 9:33) or Daniel exhausts tautology in confessing, «We have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled,» (Daniel 9:5) we see the self - accusation which resulted from the acceptance of national misfortune not as an evidence of Yahweh's weakness in protecting his people but as proof of his inflexible righteousness.

Self - acceptance, it is well to remember, implies a sense of being accepted by life.

Then, within the web of meaningful interpersonal relations, AA proceeds to utilize the alcoholic's growing capacity for self - acceptance and responsibility by saying in effect, «But you can become responsible for changing your personality pattern so that you won't be driven to drink.»

The church should learn to be a warm, friendly place where alcoholics and others may find acceptance, strength, and self - confidence.»

If he has achieved reasonable awareness and self - acceptance of his own weaknesses and sin, he will be better able to stand for what he regards as right without being self - righteous, moralistic, or rejecting of other sinners.

Even though proselytism is basically an ecclesiological problem, that it is related to the self - understanding of the church and its mission, many of the motivations and misunderstandings created by acceptance or rejection of proselytism are closely related to communication.

However, to have a stable, healthy relationship, one needs to have a healthy self - love and self - acceptance, which is psychologically possible only when one can accept one's sexuality as morally good and, in a Christian context, compatible with God's love.

Lack of self - acceptance may have the retrogressive appearance of alienation from others, in which solitariness is felt as an intolerable burden and the totality is perceived as a void.

COCU denominations will accept these challenges only as they realize that being baptized into Christ and the cross really does signify an abandonment of self and the acceptance of a new identity.

the golden rule came from Kong Fuzi an (Atheist) which which was brought over from the Shinto golden rule (love others as you love your self) which you cant really love others until you love your self,... and the idea of tolerance and acceptance is a Pagan ideal not a christian who are completely intolerant of evething not in the bible or mention in the bible as evil,..

Combining and paraphrasing these as criteria, we could say that a person is mentally healthy to the degree that: (a) His attitudes toward himself are characterized by self - acceptance, self - esteem, and accuracy of self - perception.

But it depends upon their giving up both their uncritical acceptance of the present ideology of modernization identifying it with Christianity and any revival of primalism in a militant and fundamentalist way in the name of their self - identity, and evaluating both modernity and tradition in the light of Christian personalism i.e. the idea of human beings as persons in community, and all natural and social functions as sacramental means of communion in the purpose of God.

Jesus is the Christ because his own self - concept conformed completely to the primordial, divine acceptance, and his atoning work is his unambiguous mediation of that acceptance already present to us, but ignored or rejected, in the depth of our life.

I think I can show that none of the major Christian traditions is dogmatically opposed to an Israel - like view of the church, but acceptance of it involves a break with nearly 2,000 years of both modern and premodern Christian self - understandings.

Human beings seek more in life than food, water, shelter, and sex; more even than self - esteem, social acceptance, and love.

The self - acceptance which results from this sense of being accepted is what makes it possible for us to be accepting of others in turn.

When I examine my own feelings of self - worth and self - acceptance I attribute them to a variety of factors: family and friends, times of success, times of suffering (which have probably been more important than times of success in this regard), introspection, and simply living through a certain number of years and experiences.

This self - acceptance also provides the inner security and strength that make possible two traits which are often thought of as opposites: gentleness towards others, and strength or steadfastness in conflict.

These are the themes of a Christian life: acceptance of God's acceptance of us; right - relationship with self, God and neighbor; and the balance of passion and perspective.

Persons who are offered this empathic gift tend to grow toward more appropriate self - acceptance and self - understanding.

The acceptance of boundaries that limit debate has become a form of self - censorship that distorts the information flow that is necessary for a well - informed citizenry, on which authentic democracy depends.

If proclamation of the revealed Word of God is necessary in order to identify the ground of acceptance, why should it not therefore become imperative that the therapist always be a preacher, an overt proclaimer of the self - disclosure of the accepting reality?

Men and women through the ages have also spoken of a reorientation of one's life in which, at least partially, anxiety and internal conflict can be replaced by an inner unity and sense of direction; self - defensiveness and pretense by the ability to look at oneself honestly; self - centeredness and alienation from other people by a new capacity for genuine concern; and guilt and insecurity by a sense of God's forgiveness and acceptance.

The unspoken assumption is that acceptance is already there, despite all human rejection, and that the person who is neurotically guilty, anxious, and depressed does not have proper self - knowledge.